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Featured Image: Isisfordia duncani, QM F36211 (holotype), an articulated and near complete skeleton in dorsal aspect. From Syme and Salisbury (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): A lake classification concept for a more accurate global estimate of the
This was originally published by PLOS Research News on March 28, 2018, by Beth Baker. The original post can be found here. Human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old, according to
Last week, a new species of dinosaur was described in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The dinosaur, Arkansaurus fridayi, is an ornithomimosaur the Early Cretaceous of Arkansas, and represents the first dinosaur to be described
Featured Image: From Schlager et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Retrodeformation of fossil specimens based on 3D bilateral semi-landmarks: Implementation in the R package “Morpho” (PLOS ONE) Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening
Featured Image: Tethydraco regalis FSAC-OB 199 ulna. From Longrich et al (2018), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Atlantic deep water circulation during the last interglacial (Scientific Reports) Wangshangkia, a new Devonian ostracod genus from Dushan of Guizhou,
Featured Image: Artist’s reconstruction of the Permian reptile Captorhinus with an autotomous tail (inset showing anterior caudal vertebrae with fracture planes). Reconstruction by Danielle Dufault. From LeBlanc et al (2018). CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): First endemic
A big component of paleontological work revolves around identifying morphological characters that diagnose distinct species in the fossil record. But therein lies an unavoidable problem: where is the line between variation among separate species and variation within a
Featured Image: Skull of Metoposaurus krasiejowensis from the Upper Triassic of southwest Poland (UOPB 01029). From Konietzko-Meier et al (2017), CC-BY. Papers (All Open Access): Climate warming drives local extinction: Evidence from observation and experimentation (Science
